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News Release - February 21, 2018

Los Angeles and San Diego County Schools Receive Top Awards for Their Civic Education Programs

Over 70 California public schools from throughout the state also honored by this year’s Civic Learning Awards, co-sponsored by Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye.
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Feature - June 2, 2016

Chief Justice and Appellate Court Leaders Visit Award-Winning Schools

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye and Court of Appeal presiding justices visited nine elementary, middle, and high schools this spring to present...
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Los Angeles County: Presiding Justice Lee Smalley Edmon, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 3, visits Normandie Avenue Elementary to present their award. 

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Feature - May 4, 2017

Video: Civic Learning and the Judicial Branch

In this video feature, the Chief Justice explains the judiciary's role in civic education and why her Civic Learning Initiative is so important to her as leader of the state judicial branch.
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News Release - October 28, 2021

Ethics Committee Issues Advice to Judges on Disqualifying from School District Mask and Vaccine Mandate Cases

California Supreme Court ethics committee issues expedited guidance for judges engaged in civics education activities about disqualifying from cases about school district mask and vaccine mandates.
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News Release - September 21, 2017

Federal and State Courts Collaborate on Civic Education for Constitution Day

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye was the keynote speaker at a Constitution Day event held at the U.S. District Court in Sacramento.
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News Release - August 10, 2020

California Supreme Court Issues Order Finalizing Lower Passing Score for Future Bar Exam Takers

Lower passing score will not be applied retroactively to previous Bar Exam takers, court writes in letter to State Bar.
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Feature - December 15, 2016

Creating Access: The Judicial Council’s 2016 Annual Review

In 2016, the Judicial Council continued focusing on efforts to better stabilize branch funding, improve branch governance, and to address concerns about fairness raised by the public, our sister branches of government, and stakeholders throughout the state.
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Traffic Amnesty
Facilities
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Feature - May 14, 2018

Peer Courts = Juror Training

The Constitutional promise of being tried by a “jury of your peers” is taken to the extreme in peer courts, an alternative approach to the traditional juvenile justice system where teens judge other teens.
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Middle school students deliberate on the appropriate consequences for a peer court defendant.

News Release - October 13, 2020

Justice Martin J. Jenkins Confirmed to California Supreme Court

SAN FRANCISCO—The Commission on Judicial Appointments scheduled a public hearing for Nov. 10 beginning at 1 p.m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom—350 McAllister Street in San Francisco—to consider the nomination by Governor Gavin Newsom of Justice Martin J.

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News Release - October 22, 2020

California Supreme Court Approves Provisional Licensing Program for 2020 Law School Graduates

The program will continue until June 1, 2022 unless extended by the court.
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Feature - August 6, 2020

Courts use Remote Technology for Community Outreach

Since the COVID-19 state of emergency issued in mid-March, courts around the state have been holding more court hearings remotely. Now courts are looking for ways to expand remote technology to support community engagement. 
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Feature - July 19, 2016

State Approves More Civic Learning

After more than a dozen years of striving for a more robust civics curriculum in California’s public schools, advocates for civic learning are about to get their wish.
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Power of Democracy Steering Committee
CA History Social Science Framework
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